August 15, 2010

It was on this dayin 1969 that Woodstock began. This music festival on a 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, in upstate New York, was originally advertised as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music." The Bethel town board of supervisors refused to grant the permit to legally hold the event, arguing that the proposed porta-potties didn't meet the town health and safety codes. But the organizers went ahead with the concert anyway. They predicted that 50,000 people would show up. Instead half a million people came.